Man fined after scaling hotel

HAVING been thrown out of two pubs already, Timothy Donald Robertson took to climbing the roof of a Toowoomba nightclub to get in, the city's Magistrates Court heard yesterday.

A police patrol spotted patrons outside the Cube Hotel in Margaret Street looking skyward about 3.10am, November 14, and went to investigate, the court heard.

Told someone was on the roof, the officers found no-one but were called back by hotel management 20 minutes later on a report Robertson had returned to ground after scaling the building's roof.

The 23-year-old admitted to police he had been thrown out of Tatts Hotel and Tomba's Niteclub earlier so had scaled the Cube Hotel's back wall and climbed in through a smoking area upstairs, prosecutor Sergeant Greg Lewis told the court.

“I fell through the roof,” the Cambooya man replied, explaining he had fallen through the hotel's perspex awning, an area prohibited to patrons.

Robertson pleaded guilty to a charge of “unregulated high-risk activities”, his solicitor Phil Stainton telling the court his client instructed he was drunk on the night and realised it was a “stupid and risky” thing to do.

Mr Stark noted it was Robertson's third public nuisance type offence in three months and convicted and fined him $300.